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New Wordpress plugin add Twitter id to your comments!

November 22, 2008

New Wordpress plugin add Twitter id to your comments!

A few hours ago (OK 24 ish) this popped up in the RSS;

Direct link to post: How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com

A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean Walberg (the guy who actually made it happen and who is my server admin on TwiTip) explains how he did it.

From a post from Darren Rowse on Twitip

Darren had simply added a Twitter ID to his comment form and it was like WOW!

Sometimes the simplest things are the best…

After seeing this and implementing it on my own blog I DM’d a good friend and creator of the CommentLuv plugin Andy Bailey.

Sure enough Andy was up for the challenge of turning this idea into a WP plugin, upload, activate, customize some setting in the admin page, and add one simple piece of code to the comments.php file.

New Twitter ID added to comments

How it looks in the comments

Several pieces of Chicken and can’s of Coke later and Andy releases it to the world WP Twitip ID.

Head on over to Andy’s site to download.

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8 Responses

  1. Nick | Resource Pile says:

    Wow, that’s such a great and simple idea!

    Nick | Resource Pile´s last blog post..E-maniac’s Skull Brushes

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    November 22nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
  2. Angie Bowen says:

    This is the perfect plug-in for the social media directory, thanks so much for bringing it to our attention!

    Angie Bowen´s last blog post..Inspiration in Purple

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    November 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
  3. Gabe Diaz says:

    Awesome plugin for a simple yet very useful feature! Thanks for sharing!!

    [Reply]

    November 22nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
  4. Khayyam says:

    Can’t wait to implement this. Cheers.

    Khayyam´s last blog post..Design Your Own Tequila bottle…

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    November 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
  5. angelina says:

    Hey it is really nice thing…

    [Reply]

    November 24th, 2008 at 4:48 am
  6. Dave Earley says:

    This is pretty cool. I was about to say, “Isn’t it a bit dangerous in that anyone could put your twitter username in and post something damaging?” But then realised that’s possible in any comment system that doesn’t use some kind of verification or login (like OpenID).

    Dave Earley´s last blog post..Helen Thomas – ink in her veins

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    November 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
  7. sugarrae (Rae) says:

    @styletime re this http://tinyurl.com/5sq4k8

    [Reply]

    November 25th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
  8. On the Social Media Scene (Nov. 08) | Social Media Directory Blog says:

    [...] New Wordpress Plugin – Add Twitter ID to Your Comments [...]

    December 3rd, 2008 at 7:27 pm

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